Ruckdog's UCM Fleet for Dropfleet

[Ruckdog]

The first wave of my UCM fleet is finished! This batch includes an Atlantis class battlecruiser, an Avalon class battlecruiser, a Moscow heavy cruiser, a Berlin class cruiser, and a Seattle fleet carrier, backed up by 4 New Orleans strike carriers and two Toulon class frigates.













This was my attempt to re-create the engine glow from the studio models:



This was all of the capital ships I got from my Kickstarter pledge, as well as a decent chunk of the frigate-sized ships. I'm not sure yet where I'll go from here as far as fleet expansions go; I'm going to wait until after I play in the event on Saturday to decide. Thanks for looking!

[Landlubber]

Looking good Ruck. Man, I like the design of the UCM ships. Very cool spaceship design.

I think you nailed the engine glow, by the way.

Can you post some pics with some Firestorm Armada or Halo ships so we can see the size comparison?

[markymark1970]

Agreed, great job on the ships and the glow is well done.  Good luck!

[McKInstry]

Looks fantastic. How did you do the engine glow?

[Ruckdog]

It was pretty straight forward, really. I used a medium blue as the base, then used a light blue (GW Ice Blue, to be specific) layerd over the top. I kept it thin so some of the darker blue wold show through, and also tried to keep some of the darker blue around the edges. I think finished it off with a small dot of white paint in the middle of the engine.